MelonTree

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by MelonTree 5y ago
> If this pandemic does not teach nations, governments and people why it is so important to have short local and capable supply chains, I don't know what will. I doubt it will. I order a lot of construction materials, so I've b
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by MelonTree 5y ago
He said: "I only needed 6"
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by MelonTree 5y ago
It's massively easier. If at the time I had my money in bitcoin, I would just need to find willing trader (someone who would trade my bitcoin for making my rent payment). But because I didn't, and my bank account was frozen, I had
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by MelonTree 5y ago
Yeah, it was the US. Funnily enough, I never found out why it happened. Everyone claimed to not know, have no access to it, and the people who were supposed to be in touch with me never were. A week earlier I did send a reasonable amount of
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by MelonTree 5y ago
No, not at all. During my asset freeze, I considered trying to take action against my bank to force something to actually happen and facts to come to light. But I also had access to no money, and and my time was better spent working some ca
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by MelonTree 5y ago
So basically he believes bitcoin is a ponzi because bitcoin investors "expect good profits" yet also believes "few if any gold investors have expectations of profits". I laughed a little, but then I realized he was serio
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by MelonTree 5y ago
I got involved in bitcoin after being blackballed from the (US) financial world while for 2-3 months while I was "investigated" in the most dystopianly opaque way possible. One day I lost the ability to transact. A few months late
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by MelonTree 5y ago
100 years ago, you would've used the same argument to try ban cars. They're fundamentally antithetical to democracy, as they allow anyone to .. commit crimes and get away with it.
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by MelonTree 5y ago
More informative than one you didn't go to?
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by MelonTree 5y ago
> my partner is intergender but biologically female/female-presenting Out of curiosity, would that make you bisexual?
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by MelonTree 5y ago
> Ah, blockchain innovation, which is somehow so vital to the shining future of mankind, yet has utterly failed to produce anything of technological or economic value with the billions already invested. Cryptocurrencies have allowed me t
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by MelonTree 5y ago
HN tends to be very skeptical in general. It's easy to sound intelligent with a well-reasoned negative opinion than it is with an optimistic one. I think with cryptocurrency in particular a lot of HN'ers have really just dug their